Cuissard

//kwisɑɹ(d)// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An armor leg-guard or thigh-guard.

    "His looks anxiously followed the men as, upon given signals, they disappeared and returned with a fresh supply of cuissards, brassards, gorgets, knee and breast plates, groaning under the weight […]"

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"His looks anxiously followed the men as, upon given signals, they disappeared and returned with a fresh supply of cuissards, brassards, gorgets, knee and breast plates, groaning under the weight […]"

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